THE CURRICULUM OF THE FUTURE
25 October 2019, Chancellor's Building, Little France
FREE to all NHS staff, University staff and students
Vybarr Cregan-Reid is an author and academic who has written widely on the subjects of literature, health, nature and the environment. His current book is Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us. It was adapted into a series for the BBC World Service and aired earlier this year in over 200 countries. He has written for The Guardian, Telegraph, The Observer and The Sunday Times, to name but a few, and his work has featured on ITV, Sky News, NPR, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio Scotland.
Provisional Programme
12.30pm Registration (Chancellor’s Building Reception)
1.15pm Welcome and introduction Shirley Hall (Lecture Theatre A)
Debbie Aitken, Director Clinical Educator Programme
1.30pm Presentation of 2019 SEFCE Teaching Awards
Presentation of CEP Level 3 Certificates
Professor Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh
2.00pm Breakout Sessions
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Supporting Trainers and Learners: the Implied Contract (Seminar Room 3) |
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Inequalities and Barriers to Education: Supporting LGBTQ+ students (Calton Room) |
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An Introduction to Neurodiversity (Seminar Room 4) |
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Improving the Learning Environment (Seminar Room 2) |
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Star Wars and Simulation Based Education: Designing the Jedi Training Academy (Microlab 1) |
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Assessment (Seminar Room 6) |
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Welcome and Valued – from matriculation to graduation and the 4-5 decades after (Undergraduate Medical Teaching Room) |
3.30pm Tea/coffee break (Seminar Room 2 and Undergraduate Medical Teaching Room)
4.00pm Plenary Lecture: The Curriculum of the Future (in the History of our Bodies)
Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid, Reader in English & Environmental Humanities, University of Kent Rutherford College
5.00pm Closing Remarks
Dr David Kluth, Head of Medical Education, University of Edinburgh
To book a place: https://edinburgh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sefce-symposium-registration-2019